Sharp County, Arkansas
Sharp County · Ash Flat is the seat · Evening Shade and Hardy are not this hall · Little Rock is the capital of Arkansas
Ash Flat is the hall. Evening Shade and Hardy are not. Little Rock is the capital.
Sharp County, Arkansas, was erected 18 July 1868 and named for Ephraim Sharp. Ash Flat is the seat (from 1967). It is not the capital of Arkansas. Little Rock is. Evening Shade was the seat 1870–1967. Hardy was a dual seat 1894–1967. Neither is the live hall. Cherokee Village, Highland, Cave City (part), Sidney, and Williford are cities and towns in this county — they are not the hall. Cherokee Village is large. It is not 718 Ash Flat Drive.
Places include Ash Flat, Hardy, Evening Shade, Cherokee Village, Highland, Cave City (part), Sidney, and Williford. 2020 census: 17,271. This page is Side One for the place. The Sheriff’s job — remainder patrol and a 110-bed house this badge still holds on Arnhart — is taught at Office of the Sheriff — Sharp County.
Nine Justices at 718 Ash Flat Drive. They fund. They do not hire the Sheriff.
Sharp is a County Judge plus a nine-member Quorum Court. The Judge lists at 718 Ash Flat Drive, Ash Flat, AR 72513 (870-994-7338). Quorum Court meets the second Monday at 6:00 p.m. at the courthouse. They fund roads, Arnhart detention, and the Sheriff’s budget. They do not hire the Sheriff. The people do. Ash Flat City Council is a city body. Hardy City Council is a city body. The Arkansas General Assembly sits in Little Rock. None of those is this Quorum Court.
The courthouse lists at 718 Ash Flat Drive — 1966–1967 buff brick and concrete (Stuck, Frier, Lane & Scott). Combined County Clerk / Circuit Clerk lists here (870-994-7361). Confirm at official Sharp County pages before you drive. Salem is Fulton. Melbourne is Izard. Batesville is Independence. Little Rock is Pulaski.
The Sheriff is four years, Article 7, § 46 / Amendment 95, on the gubernatorial table. Last regular Tuesday, 8 November 2022. Next regular Tuesday, 3 November 2026. Preferential primary Tuesday, 3 March 2026 (already sat). Take office 1 January 2027 (A.C.A. § 21-1-102). The Governor is 2026. That is a different desk in Little Rock. Justices of the Peace are two years.
Spring River Ozarks. This is not Evening Shade. This is not Hardy as this hall.
North-central Arkansas. The Spring River is the water. U.S. 63 and U.S. 167 are through roads. Fulton is northwest — Salem is that hall. Izard is west — Melbourne is that hall. Independence is south — Batesville is that hall. Lawrence is east. Randolph is east. Oregon County, Missouri, is north. Staff who paste an Evening Shade postcard onto Ash Flat Drive, or treat Hardy as the live oval, or file Little Rock as this seat, or file this as Independence-with-a-spring, are on the wrong county.
How an Ash Flat public finds Ash Flat Drive and Arnhart Street
Courthouse / County Judge / combined Clerk: 718 Ash Flat Drive, Ash Flat, AR 72513. Sheriff HQ / Detention: 84 Arnhart Street, Ash Flat, AR 72513 — office (870) 994-7356, jail (870) 994-7329. The Sheriff’s own jail page places the house directly behind the courthouse on Arnhart. Older third-party listings print 30A Court Street. Confirm the live door at sharpcountysheriff.com before you drive. A student who only knows an Evening Shade photograph, or a Hardy postcard, or Little Rock, has not found this campus.
Arnhart still jails. Evening Shade does not. ADC does not.
Crime in unincorporated Sharp — Evening Shade remainder, Hardy remainder, Highland remainder, Sidney country — is this Sheriff. Crime in Ash Flat, Hardy, Evening Shade, Cherokee Village, or Highland is often those municipal departments where they sit. Confirm the live split. This Sheriff is not those badges as the whole map. ASA lists a 110-bed house (males and females) at 84 Arnhart Street. The Sheriff’s jail page notes about 72 average daily population. That house is this badge’s shop. It is not ADC. Do not send a family looking for a county booking to Evening Shade, to Hardy as a substitute jail, or to Little Rock.
Civil process and court security at 718 Ash Flat Drive are the Sheriff. Rights do not change at a Spring River put-in. Remedy for an Evening Shade municipal paper is that town. Remedy for a Sheriff’s paper is the Sheriff. Relief when U.S. 63 ices is this count first.
What this Spring River county actually watches from Ash Flat
Court calendars at 718 Ash Flat Drive. A wreck on U.S. 63. High water on the Spring River. A night road toward Evening Shade or Williford. Fog on the Izard line. Coordination with Ash Flat, Hardy, Evening Shade, Cherokee Village, Highland, and ASP without becoming those departments. Coordination with Fulton’s Sheriff is mutual aid between two offices, not a merger, and not a reason to file Salem as this hall. An Evening Shade photograph does not steal the seat. Little Rock remains the capital. Ash Flat remains the hall.
Ash Flat snapshot (verify official sources)
- Seat: Ash Flat · Not this hall: Evening Shade · Hardy · Capital (not this seat): Little Rock
- Government: County Judge + nine Justices of the Peace · court 718 Ash Flat Drive · combined Clerk
- Sheriff: four years · 2026 · remainder patrol and a house this Sheriff still holds · HQ/jail 84 Arnhart Street
- Neighbors: Fulton · Izard · Independence · Lawrence · Randolph · Oregon (MO)
- Not Evening Shade as this oval · Not Hardy as this hall · Not Little Rock as this seat
What Ash Flat is not — not Evening Shade, not Hardy, not Little Rock
- Not Little Rock as this seat. Little Rock is the capital. Ash Flat is the seat.
- Not Evening Shade as this hall. Not Hardy as this hall.
- Not Cherokee Village as 718 Ash Flat Drive. Not Highland as this oval.
- Not Fulton County. Not Salem as this oval.
- Not a municipal department as this Sheriff for the whole map. Not ASP as this oval.
- Not a campaign flyer.